After making his name in sketch comedy, Jordan Peele pulls off a spectacular transformation as horror movie director.

Jordan Peele's debut movie is a game-changer, with the potential to unlock the gates for black participation in a genre in which they have rarely felt welcome.

"It's been very emotional ... incredibly difficult but therapeutic as well," Ledger's sister Kate said.

Our pick of the best of the big screen this week

Johnny Depp's legal spat has just gotten uglier.

Kitty Green's unconventional documentary reveals plenty about the unsolved murder, though not the one thing people so desperately want - an answer.

Twenty-five years after he died alone in a motel room, Australian art's troubled hero is captured on the big screen.

The two comedians play mother and daughter in the new film, Snatched.

Barbra Streisand has claimed sexism cost her Oscar nominations because even just two decades ago people weren't comfortable with the idea of a female director.

​Rebel Wilson is claiming defamatory magazine articles cost her roles in Hollywood and tarnished her reputation, a court has heard.

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'He talks pretty straight,' the maverick filmmaker says of the Russian leader.

It began as a student film project but soon morphed into something much larger - including an unexpected and bruising legal battle.

Director George Miller has definite plans to return to his dusty dystopian wasteland.

Brie Larson has had a stratospheric rise to fame on the back of multi-layered roles, including her latest in Free Fire.

One of Britain's most interesting filmmakers finds the human side of lowlifes, criminals and terrorists.

Tom Hanks said Demme was the "grandest of men" who "taught us how big a heart a person can have."

Julian Barnes' award-winning novel The Sense of an Ending has been filmed with meticulous attention to detail.

Film reviews: Colossal, Free Fire, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Raw, Rules Don't Apply, Their Finest, Things to Come, and more.

Warren Beatty begins this pageant of Hollywood life in the 1960s with a quote from Howard Hughes, whom he plays with just the right amount of crazy: "Never check an interesting fact". I don't know if Hughes ever said it, because I haven't checked it (boom tish).

A young French doctor is summoned to a convent in the middle of the woods – arriving in the nick of time, since one of the nuns is about to give birth.

Anne Fontaine is the kind of filmmaker who likes to do something different each time.

She's made the leap from Home and Away to Hollywood, but Samara Weaving is unlikely to forget the film that was her first.

A little-known Ryan Kwanten film proves to be Screen Australia's best financial performer.

A historical drama set on the eve of World War II feels frighteningly relevant.